Marijuana Users: The Great Unwashed Bottom Dwellers!
- So Says the Oregonian.

"Drug warriors" should get their facts straight!

Photo courtesy: doobieduck 2008

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian newspaper May 6, 2012 is back at its obnoxious vilification of medical marijuana users with a title of an op-ed article “America Can’t Afford to Legalize Marijuana” by Johan Mathiesen whose brain must be venom because it acts like poison with no positive attributes.

He quotes, or misquotes, Lauren Ruth Wiener’s op-ed article in the Oregonian April 29, 2012 about her own use of cannabis “Confessions of a Recreational Doper”. Unfortunately she employs much of the Reefer Madness bushwah.

Cannabis/marijuana has been used as medicine safely and efficiently for about 4,000 years with no deaths! As a child, Weiner was using it as a tranquilizer for PTSD because of extremely severe child abuse which is one of its chief uses nowadays. She says she feels “calmer and more focused”, which are the results of cannabis and other tranquilizers.

She decries that cannabis is not used for PTSD. As a matter of fact, cannabis IS used by thousands if not millions for this purpose believe it or not. The main use of medical cannabis is for severe/chronic pain diagnosed and treated by the patient’s own regular doctor and not by a marijuana doctor.

She mentions “people dying from pot overdoses” --- she cannot find and report even ONE. In Oregon, a patient must have at least one medical condition acceptable by the state. There are about 50 acceptable conditions; chronic/severe pain is the main one with 70% of patients.

It is interesting that Wiener’s article engendered 65 reader comments. Most of the responses “pulled her up by her shorts” the responses were very educational.

Getting back to Mathiesen, other than the insulting “unwashed bottom dwellers” it is true that federal and state anti-cannabis drug war activity is a major industry costing maybe 80 billion dollars a year and is a gross expensive failure.

These expensive drug warriors may be able to find honorable work chasing and jailing “real criminals”.

His most abominable remarks are about “throwing millions (of cannabis criminals) back onto the streets”. Most of these “criminals” are in for simple possession and are NOT criminals in any sense of the word.

Mathiesen condemns the fact that cannabis profits by the Mexican drug cartels pushes guns for drug wars south of the border. The US government itself was involved in these gun sales.

He doesn’t seem to know this, but cannabis is legal in many countries and legal or not, it is used by millions of people successfully and safely as medicine.

MATHIESEN ALSO HAD DOZENS OF COMMENTS EDUCATING HIM (MAYBE BUT UNLIKELY).

More information on the history of Dr. Leveque can be found in his book, General Patton's Dogface Soldier of WWII about his own experiences "from a foxhole".
Order the book by mail by following this link: Dogface Soldier

If you are a World War II history buff, you don't want to miss it.

Watch for more streaming video question and answer segments about medical marijuana with Bonnie King and Dr. Phil Leveque.

Click on this link for other articles and video segments about PTSD and medical marijuana on Salem-News.com:
Dr. Leveque INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES

Salem-News.com Marijuana Coverage

Where and How to Smoke Legal Marijuana without Fear of Arrest in the U.S.

Eulogy of a Great Warrior: Hoss Plourde

The Ripple Effect How Marijuana Laws Are Impacting Society

Audit the Audit

Welcome Home, Tom

Comments Leave a comment on this story.

Name:

All comments and messages are approved by people and self promotional links or unacceptable comments are denied.

---

DoobieDuck January 18, 2013 11:14 am (Pacific time)

Hey Doc thanks for the great article and your displaying my image. Be well..DD

---

Brandt Hardin May 16, 2012 12:08 pm (Pacific time)

The War on Drugs failed $1 Trillion ago! This money could have been used for outreach programs to clean up the bad end of drug abuse by providing free HIV testing, free rehab, and clean needles. Harmless drugs like marijuana could be legalized to help boost our damaged economy. Cannabis can provide hemp for countless natural recourses and the tax revenue from sales alone would pull every state in our country out of the red! Vote Teapot, PASS IT, and legalize it. Voice you opinion with the movement and read more on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/01/vote-teapot-2011.html

---

Anonymous May 15, 2012 7:09 pm (Pacific time)

Major auto insurance agencies say that those who smoke marijuana are safer drivers: http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2012/04/auto_insurance_site_says_marijuana_users_are_safer.php

[Return to Top]

---

©2025 Salem-News.com. All opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Salem-News.com.